The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been without a director for 16 months, and a senior lawmaker is pressuring President Barack Obama to fill the vacancy.
“Leaving the agency without a permanent director for nearly a year and a half without so much as a public explanation is inexcusable,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, wrote in a letter to Obama [PDF] on Monday.
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